Re: Accounts Software (was Re: ChangeFSI on Iyonix)

In article <V%SPf.13$hZ.86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, James Sargent <root@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote: [about the need for low-power computers]

But don't forget, the CPU is not the full story - there's all the
associated stuff on the motherboard, graphics card, peripherals, displays,
distribution grid and generation network. And as well as the hardware
design of such, there's power management of these items as well. So it's
not really as simple as everybody using a hard disc controller chip,
sorry, XScale at the centre of their computers.

Having a CPU of 5W or 30W is only a small part of that overall picture.

I understand that. That's why I said: "Our long-term hope is in systems like
ARM - but hopefully even better."

Speaking for myself, I really didn't understand what you'd written until
others clarified it.

In that case I should have made it clearer. Sorry. Perhaps it's time the whole
concept of low-power desktop computers was re-visited; I remember someone
calculated that the RiscStations could run off the power in the waste heat of
a Pentium chip. Not as good as the futuristic machine in Harriet's short-story
though. ;-)

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